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1、IJSLL(print)issn1748-8885TheInternationalIJSLL(online)issn1748-8893JournalofSpeech,ReviewLanguageandtheLawTheRoutledgeHandbookofForensicLinguistics.MalcolmCoulthardandAlisonJohnson(eds)(2010)Abingdon,Oxon:Routledge672ppReviewedbyPaulNewmanForensiclinguistics,theacademicfieldconcerne
2、dwiththeinteractionoflanguageandlaw,canbesaidtohavehaditsoriginsinthe1960swiththepublicationoftwoclassicworks:DavidMellinkoff’sTheLanguageoftheLaw(1963)andIanSvartvik’sTheEvansStatements:ACaseforForensicLinguistics(1968)–neitherofwhichisfound,incidentally,intheindextotheHandbook.Int
3、he1970s,papersonforensiclinguisticsbegantoappearlittlebylittle,mostnotablythefascinatingpsycholinguisticworkofElizabethLoftus(e.g.,1975).Whenwereachthe1980s,thereisasuddenoutpouringofforensiclinguisticsarticles.Thisgrowthinscholarlyinterestledinthefollowingyearstotwonotableeventstha
4、tsignaledtheemergenceofforensiclinguisticsasanidentifiablesubfieldwithinlinguistics.OnewastheappearanceofJudithLevi’sBibliographicGuide(1994).Theotherwasthefounding,in1993,oftheInternationalAssociationofForensicLinguists(IAFL)alongwithitsjournalForensicLinguistics(1994),nowtitledthe
5、InternationalJournalofSpeech,LanguageandtheLaw.ThisimpressiveHandbook(2010),editedbyCoulthardandJohnson,marksanothermilestone,indicatingthatforensiclinguisticshascomeofage.Itisnolongeraspecializationpracticedbyahandfulofscholarswhojusthappentohavelanguageandlawinterests,butratherhas
6、becomeapropersub-disciplinewithinlinguisticswithacoreofwell-trainedpractionersandthedevelopmentofspecialcoursesandtheexistenceofdegreeprogramsforstudentsinthefield.AffiliationIndianaUniversity,USApnxxpn@indiana.eduIJSLLvol18.12011161–167doi:10.1558/ijsll.v18i1.161©2011,equinoxpublis
7、hing162Theinternationaljournalofspeech,languageandthelawThisnearly700-pageHandbookisintendedtoserveasa‘comprehensiveadvancedintroductiontocoreissuesandtopicsincontemporaryforensiclinguistics’(p.2).Itconsistsofrelativelybrief,butwell-written,papersbyfortyexperts.Thesecontributorscons
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